http://www.veganbaking.net/ 421-988 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Great article, thanks for writing it! I'm not buying Earth Balance's response... and also literally not buying anything with palm oil. It's so frustrating to go vegan and find all this tasty food, only to realize that it's kind of evil. Your recipes for vegan butter and shortening without palm oil look awesome, and I will definitely be trying them! ]]> Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:51:59 -0400 421-736 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Hi. Thank you for bringing this topic to the forefront of vegan baking. I refuse to buy anything with palm oil or palm fruit, and I have read enough of the literature to know that the RSPO is made up of members of corporations. There will never be such a thing as sustainable palm oil, and it is only a matter of time before other vegans begin to realize this. Of course, palm oil and other palm products go under many other names: PKO – Palm Kernel Oil PKO fractionations: Palm Kernel Stearin (PKs); Palm Kernel Olein (PKOo) PHPKO – Partially hydrogenated Palm Oil FP(K)O – Fractionated Palm Oil OPKO – Organic Palm Kernel Oil Palmitate – Vitamin A or Asorbyl Palmitate (NOTE: Vitamin A Palmitate is a very common ingredient in breakfast cereals and we have confirmed 100% of the samples we’ve investigated to be derived from palm oil) Palmate Sodium Laureth Sulphate (Can also be from coconut) Sodium Lauryl Sulphates (can also be from ricinus oil) Sodium dodecyl Sulphate (SDS or NaDS) Elaeis Guineensis Glyceryl Stearate Stearic Acid Chemicals which contain palm oil Steareth -2 Steareth -20 Sodium Lauryl Sulphate Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (coconut and/or palm) Hydrated palm glycerides Sodium isostearoyl lactylaye (derived from vegetable stearic acid) Cetyl palmitate and octyl palmitate (names with palmitate at the end are usually derived from palm oil, but as in the case of Vitamin A Palmitate, very rarely a company will use a different vegetable oil) so it is difficult. But we can all do our best! Really like your site! ]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:35:24 -0500 421-526 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil The sustainability of coconut oil is different than that of palm oil because you do not need to continuously need to cut down and grow more coconut palms in order to produce more coconuts from what I understand. A coconut palm will continuously produce coconuts which is where the oil comes from. ]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:20:24 -0400 421-485 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Frankly? they are full of SHIT! and is it not funny how they thraten u with legal steps should u publish their msg. verbatim???? By the way did u know that the greenwashing Roundtables President is the same Person as the President of UNILEVER, which one of the worst AGGRO FOOD BIZZNESSES (cooparating with MONSANTO!) if i were u i would not trust anything they say, its mostly LIES LIES LIES, here is a much better link: http://veganjoy.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-on-your-cupcake-veganism-and.html ]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:06:46 -0400 421-484 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Frankly? they are full of SHIT! and is it not funny how they thraten u with legal steps should u publish their msg. verbatim???? By the way did u know that the greenwashing Roundtables President is the same Person as the President of UNILEVER, which one of the worst AGGRO FOOD BIZZNESSES (cooparating with MONSANTO!) if i were u i would not trust anything they say, its mostly LIES LIES LIES, here is a much better link: http://veganjoy.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-on-your-cupcake-veganism-and.html ]]> Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:56:35 -0400 421-483 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Frankly? they are full of SHIT! and is it not funny how they thraten u with legal steps should u publish their msg. verbatim???? By the way did u know that the greenwashing Roundtables President is the same Person as the President of UNILEVER, which one of the worst AGGRO FOOD BIZZNESSES (cooparating with MONSANTO!) if i were u i would not trust anything they say, its mostly LIES LIES LIES, here is a much better link: http://veganjoy.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-on-your-cupcake-veganism-and.html ]]> Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:54:36 -0400 421-255 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil just because united states deforested there country 200 years ago before people did protests against these things doesnt mean you can stand proud about your ability to produce 92% of poisonous and genetically modified canola oil. You are such a hypocrical nation just running down any country trying to expand there finacial export base using the very same methods you have used and still use to boost your countries exports at the expense of other less fortunate countries. ]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:35:35 -0500 421-35 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Palm oil is actually good for our health as long as it isn't hydrogenated, but you should watch out for these few oils. Here's the link of an article about vegetable oils and a little experiment you could do to see how certain vegetable oils turn into plastic: http://www.palmoilconsumer.com/Palm-Oil-And-Health/Good-Vegetable-Oils.aspx As for palm oil and the environment, WWF has stepped in to educate palm oil smallholders, enlisting plantation owners to carry out innovative methods to control Orang-utan encroachment on their land. Just make sure we purchase only SUSTAINABLE palm oil ]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:42:30 -0400 421-34 http://www.veganbaking.net/articles-and-guides/421-the-problem-with-palm-oil Hey Mattie! Thanks SO much for doing all that research on palm oil and bringing us up to date. My friend Vineet reminded me a few weeks back just how destructive palm oil farming is and it's been weighing on me since then. I emailed Earth Balance about my concerns and got a response the next day, basically saying that they are using responsibly grown palm oil. Maybe if we kept some pressure on them to change, they would....surely they could work some of their magic on coconut oil ? Cheers, Dale ]]> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:05:19 -0400